Articles Index
Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK)
The Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK) is the name given by German archaeologist F. Klopfleisch in 1884 to the first true farming communities in central Europe.
Huaca Colorada (Peru)
The Moche archaeological site of Huaca Colorada, located in the Jequetepeque Valley of the arid desert of northern coastal Peru, contains important information concerning the copper metallurgy of this ancient people.
Bitumen
Bitumen is a black, oily, viscous material that is a naturally-occurring organic byproduct of decomposed organic materials; and it was used by humans and our ancestors for any number of very useful things for the past 40,000 years.
FAQ: Finding an Archaeology Specialist
Finding a specialist in archaeology or any scientific field is easy these days--as long as you have a computer and an internet connection.
Swifterbant Site and Culture
Swifterbant is the name of the type sites of the Swifterbant culture, a Late Mesolithic and Neolithic culture located in the Netherlands.
Regional Studies
Academic programs providing advanced degrees with foci on regions of the world.
Underwater, Maritime and Marine
Programs that provide advanced training in underwater, marine, and maritime archaeology.
Cultural Resource and Heritage Management Education Programs
A list of academic archaeology programs that are dedicated to training the next generation of cultural resource managers and heritage professionals.
Classical Greek, Roman and Ancient History University Programs
A list of academic departments with focuses on the classics, ancient Greece and Rome
Medieval, Byzantine and Ottoman Periods
A list of academic programs that emphasize the study of the Byzantine, Ottoman, and Medieval periods in history as archaeological studies.
Art and Art History
A listing of academic departments that emphasize the art, buildings, and artifacts of archaeological sites and the past for prospective graduate students of archaeology
Peak Sanctuaries
A peak sanctuary is a type of shrine, a cult or ritual space associated with the Minoan cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean.
Crescents
Crescents are a type of chipped stone tool--but scholars have yet to decide exactly what its function was.
Cacao
Criollo cacao (Theobroma cacao spp cacao) is the name of a small tropical tree with large ovate fruit, native to the northern Amazon of South America but found in ancient planted groves throughout central America.
Chocolate Domestication
Theobroma spp is the official name of several varieties of tropical trees that are native to the northern Amazon region of South America and were cultivated and domesticated in central America to produce the wonderful elixir of the gods, chocolate.
Mayan Economics
The Maya civilization had an extensive economic system, based on trade and agriculture. Here are some details of some of that system.
Prehistory
The study of prehistory--in this usage anyway--includes archaeological studies for which there are no written records.
The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters were what Native American groups called the combined intercropping of maize, beans and squash. Recent scientific research has shown what a stroke of genius this combination was, on many health and environmental methods.
Flintbek (Germany)
Flintbek is a Neolithic and Bronze Age cemetery in the Schleswig Holstein region of Germany. Its best known component is a large Neolithic barrow within which is preserved one of the earliest evidences of wheeled vehicles: cart ruts, dated to about 3500 BC.
Wheeled Vehicles
Wheeled vehicles were invented pretty much simultaneously in Southwest Asia and Northern Europe, about 5500 years ago. Their inventionproved altogether too useful, allowing imperialists to run amok, and markets to flourish.
RCYBP - Radio Carbon Years Before the Present
RCYBP (Radio Carbon Years Before the Present and abbreviated in many different ways) is a shorthand reference to the uncalibrated date recovered from carbon 14 dating.
Will Durant on Geological Consent
Will Durant was an influential historian, with an elegant turn of phrase.
Bering Strait and the Bering Land Bridge
The Bering Strait is a sea lane between Russia and North America, located over the top of the Bering Land Bridge, that now-submerged portion of the Bering Strait, that once connected the Siberian mainland with North America.
Research Paper Topics
If your archaeology or anthropology professor has assigned you a research paper to write on any archaeological culture or site, how do you pick one? Luckily, there are several ways, located right here.
Hacienda Tabi
Hacienda Tabi was a sugar mill and plantation, which operated in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico during the 18th and 19th centuries. Owned by the descendents of the Spanish Conquistadors, Tabi existed primarily at the expense of hundreds of indebted native and immigrant workers.